– factorize common code between the static and the dynamic version
– reorganise language-specific code into dedicated functions
– use a function template in the main helper to do some computations
at compile-time (using constexpr features)
We follow the advice given by Josuttis in his book about move semantics.
Deleting those member fuctions can be a bug if we want to allow copy semantics,
because overload resolution will no longer fallback to the copy
constructor/assignment operator when given an rvalue.
In particular, this explain why it was not possible to delete the move
assignment operator of the StaticModel class.
– Indicate whether we are trying to normalize the static or dynamic model
– If failed to normalize the static model, suggest to use the “no_static”
option
– Remove a superfluous error message
Consequently drop “occbin” option to “model”.
Incidentally, allow more values in equation tag names (previously some keywords
such as “alpha” were disallowed).
Ref. #68
Writes the number of temporary terms of the planner objective function derivatives objective_tmp_nbr in the driver.m file.
Useful for the k-order approximations of welfare.
For the time being, the preprocessor will refuse that this option be used with
any command other than estimation.
By the way, remove occbin_likelihood and occbin_smoother options to estimation.
Ref. dynare#569
Writes the number of non-zero derivatives of the planner objective function NNZDerivatives_objective in the driver.m file. Useful for the k-order approximations of welfare.
Temporary terms need to be computed per equation (as was done previously), and
not simply per block.
It’s necessary to track temporary terms per equation, because some equations
are evaluated instead of solved, and an equation E1 may depend on the value of
an endogenous Y computed by a previously evaluated equation E2; in this case,
if some temporary term TT of equation E2 contains Y, then TT needs to be
computed after E1, but before E2.
In particular, in dynamic models, temporary terms are now computed for
derivatives w.r.t. exogenous, and also w.r.t. endogenous variables that do not
belong to the block.
Also remove a message about elements below the cutoff that was no longer
correct (elements below the cutoff have no impact on the incidence matrix
outside of normalization).
By the way, remove the BlockType stuff which was purely informative (and it’s
not worth carrying over prologue and epilogue information just for that).
Previously, the cutoff option would also impact the block decomposition itself,
since it would had an influence on the incidence matrix used for computing the
blocks and their derivatives.
The problem is that, in the general case, it’s quite possible that an element
of the numerical Jacobian be zero at the evaluation point, while being quite
different from zero along the simulation path. A typical example is an
expression of the type x*y, where y is an endogenous and x is an exogenous not
present in the initval block (and hence initialized to zero).
Sébastien Villemot
MichelJuillard
Willi Mutschler
NormannR